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Example sentences for "taking them"

  • Taking them to drink," he muttered; and he made for an opening at the end of the shed just as the morning bugle rang out loud and clear, echoing from the different buildings near and rousing the sleepers throughout the barracks.

  • It would be taking them to be slaughtered where they would have no means of getting at the enemy, who would be hiding in the sides of rocky ravines and gorges.

  • He was tardy in taking them in, then exclaimed--'Phoebe's teetotaller!

  • There are many modes of taking them: by rod and line, by dead line, by sniggling, by bobbing, and by spearing.

  • He would have done it, two years back; but his wife and the two little ones are so well that he did not like the thought of taking them up to London, till he was sure that his health was strong enough to stand steady work.

  • It was four or five hours before they returned, and the instant they opened the door and entered, Jim was sure that they had failed; but to his disappointment all were there, and his plan of taking them in a trap had not succeeded.

  • Jim will place all the parties, taking them by turns, as near the fire as he thinks safe; and will then return to me.

  • Taking them together, we do not find the Olympians an impressive set of beings.

  • Taking them, however, one by one, we judge of them quite differently.

  • Why did you not take them in the Minnesota directly to New York, instead of taking them to Hampton Roads?

  • Was there any difficulty in taking them to Newport News?

  • Was that the practice--taking them off in the day, and putting them on at night?

  • There is a risk from the weather in taking them there?

  • I suppose they want the goods in the country, and they think they get a profit by taking them?

  • There might be one here and one there who have got free of debt this year, because it has been an exceptionally good year in cattle; but, taking them as the same state of serfdom as they were twenty-three years ago, when I came here.

  • What do you say, Bessie, to taking them with us?

  • Most of the family thought that Milly's hopes and ideas for the future of her protégés were rather quixotic and unreasonable, aiming at taking them out of their proper sphere.

  • Taking them in order, we find the word cos to occur again in Ps.

  • They have been destroyed by taking them indiscriminately, without regard to age or sex, leaving none to propagate the race but those who by chance escaped.

  • You will make more by taking them to Swearah than anywhere else.

  • You will not lose the value of them," rejoined the old man, "by taking them to Swearah.

  • He might persuade the sheik to change his destination, by telling him that he would find a far better market in taking them to some place where vessels arrive and depart, than by carrying them into the interior of the country.

  • After the promise made to the slaves, he thought it but right to become fully convinced that they were not to be redeemed before the idea of taking them to Mogador could be honourably abandoned.

  • The Gauls, for a great while, stood wondering at the strangeness of the sight not daring to approach or touch them, taking them for an assembly of superior beings.

  • The Sturgeon is one of the finest fishes of the country, and Mr. Lord's account of the Indian mode of taking them is a very graphic picture of this river sport.

  • Now because this is very delightfull to most, I shall prescribe three wayes of taking them, as are most full of Pleasure.

  • At first I had thought of taking them to Pickford's receiving office.

  • The sham diamonds were locked in a separate division of the safe, but I introduced them to her by taking them out in her presence, spreading them on the table and ostentatiously cleaning their rolled-gold settings with a soft brush.

  • For twenty years I had carried the slightly enlarged photographs in my pocket-book, and hardly a day had passed without my taking them out to con them afresh.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taking them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and his; different districts; excellent young; false name; full half; get along; like enough; miles south; narrow compass; should hope; side corner; taking advantage; taking away; taking care; taking charge; taking cold; taking food; taking his; taking leave; taking notice; taking occasion; taking part; taking place; taking them; will dwell; yards east